'Help': Mum's chilling text message to neighbour

BEFORE her partner of 20 years and the father to her three daughters pressed a pillow down on her face and threatened to kill her, a Coast woman sent a single text.

A message to her neighbour asking her for help.

Yesterday she sat in the back of the courtroom crying as the same man was released from jail after 254 days behind bars for the assault.

The man, who cannot be named, pleaded guilty at the Maroochydore District Court to three charges: one count each of suffocation, assault occasioning bodily harm and the aggravated breach of a domestic violence order.

The court was told on July 29 the couple got into a fight over the woman's discovery of a drug-smoking pipe in their Caloundra home.

Crown prosecutor Aleksandra Nikolic said during the argument the 37-year-old old man punched the 33-year-old woman in the face.

He then picked up their six-month-old daughter and took her out of the room.

The woman used the time to send a text message.

He came back into the room, picked up a pillow and pressed it hard against the woman's face.

The man used his knees to keep her still. He told the woman it would be her last breath.